Retirements: Lindsey Hunter, Shaquille O'Neal, Michael Finley, Theo Ratliff, Kevin Ollie, Mark Blount. That's actually pretty realistic though you can quibble about Shaq if you want. Let's take a look at his player profile.

Morale: around 30, resulting in an overall decrease of -4 which put him at 75 (default is 81 which means he naturally declined 2 pts as well throughout the year)Agent: Basically he wanted a trade due to PTContract: I don't think I can go through the physical grind of another season. This will be my final season in the NBA.

Lindsey was the unhappiest (0 morale and -10 overall), Finley, Ollie, and Blount were all very happy (100 morale), Ratliff was about 50 morale and thought his role would be bigger.

Coach retirements: Mike Dunleavy and Rick Adelman. Still completely unrealistic as coaches shouldn't retire until they've hit 30 years in the league, or if they have guaranteed contracts.

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Shelb
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The Chris Bosh rebound problem is going to be hard to solve. His rebounding rating is pretty accurate, it's just the rest of the Raptors suck in rebounding. Even raising Bargnani based on the assumption his RPG goes up this year (which it seems it will), means Bargnani averages 4.5-6 rpg and Bosh grabs 12.5ish.

That being said, I beg you good sir, Raptors update soon? I originally edited them but I'm too close to be fair.

KG's "personality" is Neutral in the current roster. I'd say he's Expressive(and that's probably an understatement). Not that it's a gameplay change since no basketball game has added Techs, even though it's something people have been asking for for years.

Bosh's rebounding is likely to spike with no other rebounders around him (ala David Lee) but 15 is obviously a bit much. It will be interesting to see if Turkoglu can boost his boards now that he's not playing with Dwight Howard (but I doubt it... Howard's boards are so high because he played with two perimeter SFs and no PF).

Of course, this brings us to the fact that stats don't really accurately gauge rebounding as teammates have a big impact on it.

One thing I can do is run another association but check the leaguewide team stats to see which teams lead in each stat category. That will tell us what percentage of rebounds Bosh is grabbing on the team. I would hope the Raptors are towards the bottom of the league in boarding despite Bosh's increased totals.

I thought "personality" meant how the player deals with foul/etc calls. My bad. But if it means how the player copes with losing/whatnot than it's even worse. Kobe being "unpredictable" is alittle excessive. Same with Artest (who, while he is litterally unpredictable, generally doesn't actually complain about his team's quality). Same with Vince, who is now more "laid back" than "expressive", since he's such was such a pain in the ass in Toronto that he (aka his mother) decided to just shut up completely since he moved to Jersey/Orlando.

Really, to he honest, that whole section is pretty weird/unthought out/un explained. Oh well, why expect anything different from the brain trust at 2K Sports, right?

Anyway,

I think the best bet right now is to boost Bargnani's boards about 7-11 points, and bring everyone else of the Raptors (ie, bring Evans up to 99 since he won't get enough enoughs anyway, bring up Jack's, Jose's, Marco's, Rasho's and DeRozan's just a tad. Jack and Jose get practically zero boards, Marco gets none also although he really gets none and Rasho IMO is alittle unrated this year after being overrated the last two).

The main problem of course is that the Raptors are so terrible on the board minus Bosh/Evans so Bosh's numbers so up so huge. The high offensive rating and low defense rating for the Raps as a team probably means more shots per game, thus more misses and thus more defensive boards. While this is generally true in real life, this would mean more players with 2-3 rpg, in 2K it means afew players with 1 rpg and one player with 15 rpg.

So, unless someone finds a way to fix this, Bosh is the best rebounder in the world.

I think the logic is that players who demand trades and are prone to being unhappy with their situations are "Expressive/Unpredictable" while the players who exhibit good behavior are "Neutral/Laid Back". 2K never really went too in-depth on explaining it's effects but I presume it's nothing major. When they came out with personalities, Kobe was in the middle of demanding a trade and vetoing deals to various teams, which I guess is where that came from. Toss in his legal issues, disagreements with Shaq, loner personality, I'd probably agree with them. Kobe has only recently started to become "expressive" by being a vocal team leader and what not.

Eddy Curry is unpredictable and he was so pissed off at his PT in my first association sim that he opted out of his contract walking away from l1 million dollars, which certainly qualifies as unpredictable... and a pipe dream for Knick fans.

They will be bad, but the role players are definitely good. Amir Johnson is a player to watch if he can keep up that rate as it's even better than Evans' (his 65 DRB is only 3 points better than Bargs).

Hey Rashidi,Are you doing anything about injuries this year. If you remember, 91+ players in Ass. would play all 82 games. Do you feel we will still have this problem this year? And thank you for your hard work.